jaydeno2

I’ve lived here for 28 years. The main part of town is screaming out for some kind of renovation that will pull the depressing Boronia mall out of the 80’s. The infrastructure around those parts at Dorsey square feels so dated.
Boronia is a good spot for living in terms of how close it is to everything good. Like Mount Dandenong, the Yarra valley, the beach and the city. They’re all within reasonable trips. I consider it more of a base for the things I love rather than somewhere I love living. It has everything you’d expect a suburb to have. Schools and childcare, lots of football ovals, parks and shops - mostly just the usual suspects of Australian takeaway. Not great vegan options. It seems like the suburb over - Bayswater has seen rise to considerably more developmental refresh than Boronia of late. Shopping outside of Woolworths Boronia is often a comical and sometimes sketchy experience. Growing up it was a pretty conservative area. I feel like the insane development has given rise to a lot more younger families and people living out here. It’s wild how many apartments and townhouse developments are going in.

But overall I just think it kinda sucks 😂 the estates are fine. Maybe I’m just used to it. Or maybe I can’t get over the Boronia mall. It’s redeeming quality is that it has a K-mart. But that’s right next to a really old
Coles. Which is made redundant by the bigger and better Coles like 5 mins away in Bayswater.